Ross Barnett
PhD researcher at University of Stirling. Research focuses on use of acoustic monitoring to assess biodiversity in restored woodland.
- Reposted by Ross BarnettScotland's Natural Environment Bill has passed!🎉 The bill will contribute to achieving Scotland's ambitious commitment to becoming a nature-positive country by 2030, and have substantially restored nature by 2045.
- Reposted by Ross BarnettJust the smell of predators, like lynx, is enough to limit sapling damage from deer overbrowsing, according to new research in @jappliedecology.bsky.social
- Reposted by Ross BarnettIn our new paper, we show that native trees, particularly oaks, are crucial to support blue tits reproduction, likely via increasing preferred insect prey. Very relevant for urban planning. Leveraging 9 years of data from our Glasgow Urban Gradient study system. Led by @clairebranston.bsky.social!
- Reposted by Ross BarnettLast week, a group of BES #PhD students attended a @iapetusdtp.bsky.social doctoral training residential at The Sill in #Northumberland 👩🏫
- Reposted by Ross BarnettThe University of #Stirling is excited to be hosting #SNSC2026 😀 The registration deadline for attendance, posters and talks is Wednesday 11th February - can't wait to see you all there! 🏞️🏴🦫🐜🦌🌿
- Exciting News - Registration has opened for Scotland's Nature Student Conference 2026. Join us at the University of Stirling on 3rd and 4th March. #SNSC2026 For more information go to: scotnsconference.wixsite.com/2026
- Great to attend #BES2025 this week, and meet colleagues. Exciting to share the first findings from my PhD, and the Restoring Resilient Ecosystems project! @britishecologicalsociety.org
- Reposted by Ross BarnettTawny owls normally rely on sound to hunt, but new research being presented today at #BES2025 finds that owls in Glasgow are adapting to noisy roads by using street lights to hunt. www.britishecologicalsociety.org/tawny-owls-a...
- Looking forward to #BES2025 this week! If you're interested in restoration, complexity and ecoacoustics you should definitely check out my talk on Thursday 🌳🌲🌳🐦🐦⬛
- Reposted by Ross BarnettThe world is upside down. The Natural Environment Bill could be a turning point for Scotland’s nature. But Part 2 of the Bill threatens our most important wildlife protections. A Bill meant to help nature should not put it at risk! Email your MSPs 👉 action.rspb.org.uk/page/181323/...
- Reposted by Ross BarnettThe cover art is finished for my new book and I LOVE IT! This safari tour of the life in soil and what is means to us, is now available for pre-order as ebook, soft and hardcover in the UK and Commonwealth. Published in August next year (US date soon), I hope it'll entice everyone to love soil! 🧪🪱
- Reposted by Ross BarnettCheck out the summary of our new research in @jappliedecology.bsky.social led by Patrick Cook with @nigelwillby.bsky.social @dralanlaw.bsky.social @stir.ac.uk phys.org/news/2025-11...
- Reposted by Ross BarnettOur new paper in @ecol-evol.bsky.social shows that noise reduces owl prey detectability and it generates adverse effects already at an early life stage, with potential carry-over effects on adulthood. Paper: doi.org/10.1002/ece3... @dmdominoni.bsky.social #owls #RaptorResearch #ecology #noise
- Reposted by Ross BarnettFisheries can drive selection, but what about small-scale ornamental fisheries? Our new study shows Amazonian fishes interact w/ traps in species- & environment-specific ways, hinting at overlooked selective potential. Led by @marpineda.bsky.social Read here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
- Reposted by Ross Barnett📣 CALL FOR PAPERS 📣 Special issue: FROM CHIRPS TO INSIGHTS: PASSIVE ACOUSTIC MONITORING FOR APPLIED ORNITHOLOGY More info: vist.ly/43vfp Guest editors: Jan O. Engler, Jenn Foote, @silvereyedom.bsky.social Simon Thorn #ornithology #birds 🪶🧪
- Reposted by Ross Barnett🔉🐸🐟🦐🪲 Got freshwater sounds? Consider contributing to the Freshwater Sounds Archive! We're accepting submissions until the end of this year, and all contributors can co-author the resulting data paper. Learn more at fishsounds.net/freshwater.js and www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...!
- Contribute to the first global archive of soniferous freshwater life, The Freshwater Sounds Archive, and receive recognition as a co-author in a resulting data paper! Pre-print now available. New deadline: 31st Dec, 2025. See link 👇4 more fishsounds.net/freshwater.js
- Reposted by Ross BarnettMy first paper!! If you wanna know about woodland creation 🌳, beetles 🪲, and the effects of agriculture 🚜 - go here! doi.org/10.1016/j.fo... #BeetleEcology #WoodlandCreation #Conservation #Research #FirstAuthor #Ecology
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- Reposted by Ross Barnett🎧 What if tracking biodiversity was like mixing music? In #RESTOREID, we use sound to study restored landscapes. Check out our latest blog by @kirstyjpark.bsky.social (@stir.ac.uk) on #SoundscapeEcology 👉 bit.ly/4jGaAZz #Nature #Biodiversity #Ecology
- Reposted by Ross Barnett🚨 BREAKING: From September 1st peak rail fares will be scrapped for good in Scotland! 🟢2023: Greens scrap peak rail fares. 🟡2024: SNP bring them back 🟡2024: thousands join Green and trade union calls for the SNP to reverse their decision 🟢2025: SNP reverse their decision
- Reposted by Ross BarnettA healthy ash holding out from dieback in the middle of Glasgow. Fascinating piece in The Scotsman. 👉 buff.ly/IwFI8d8
- Reposted by Ross BarnettIt's spring again and Tawny Owls have started breeding in Glasgow! 🦉 The first adult owls of the season have been captured, ringed and tagged with biologgers, aiming to understand how they cope with roads, light & noise pollution in the urban environment. #GlasgowTawnyOwlProject #tawnyowls
- Reposted by Ross BarnettHULK ADAM SMASHES DIRE WOLVES. Man alive this vexes me, and I am a bit sweary and irritable in this. Enjoy. arutherford.substack.com/p/dire-wolve...
- Reposted by Ross BarnettAdjusting her red cap, “I never thought Leopard Seals would eat my face,” says a sullen Petrel who voted for the Leopard Seal Face Eating Party.
- Reposted by Ross BarnettStop. Admire the bee fly. Look at how it flies with absolutely no grace whatsoever. Observe how it unites bee and fly lovers everywhere without effort. Where is it going? What has it seen? With no honey to make, it has a lot of free time. #Invert #Invertebrate #Bee? #Fly #Insects
- Reposted by Ross BarnettAre you running a long-term passive acoustic study or thinking about establishing one? If yes then have a quick look at our recent paper on mitigating long-term biases in acoustic studies. Inc. a direct comparison of AudioMoth and Song Meter Micro 2 using BirdNET & more...
- 📰 NEW PAPER! Really pleased to see this published in @jappliedecology.bsky.social - a summary of the main sources of bias in ecoacoustic surveys, with recommendations on how best to control for these. 🎙️🐦🐸 doi.org/10.1111/1365...
- Doing my MRes @sceneuog.bsky.social was a great experience - really motivated me to stay on in ecological research 🌳🐦🌲🐦⬛
- Great opportunity to live and study at the Scottish Centre for Ecology and the Natural Environment on Loch Lomond @sceneuog.bsky.social while undertaking the MRes Ecology and Environmental Biology @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk. Closing date: 11 April 2025 See further details at www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate...
- Reposted by Ross BarnettMitigating bias in long-term terrestrial ecoacoustic studies🎶 Recommends 👉effective documentation of environmental & hardware-related variables📑 👉a long-term data storage strategy for reanalysis🌏 👉regular calibration tests to measure variation in the acoustic detection space🧪 🔗 buff.ly/Lu6rXz5
- Reposted by Ross BarnettA friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.” Absurd we still need to go through this 🧪👩🔬
- Reposted by Ross BarnettThe WrEN project is now on bluesky! We are a collaboration of academics, policy makers and practitioners interested in ecological restoration. You can find out more at: www.wren-project.com. @kirstyjpark.bsky.social @watts-km.bsky.social
- Reposted by Ross BarnettA mammoth circus of macabre fantasy and moral bankruptcy. I got my views on mammoths down. Enjoy. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
- Reposted by Ross BarnettSample coverage affects diversity measures of bird communities along a natural recovery gradient of abandoned agriculture in tropical lowland forests 🐦 Stresses the importance of standardizing biodiversity measures and incorporating beta diversity 🌏 🧪 🔗 buff.ly/3Enrht6
- I've started an ecoacoustics starter pack! Very aware that there are many more people in the field than are currently on this list, so please reach out if you'd like to be added/have colleagues who should be! 🐦🐸🎙️ go.bsky.app/NekQiFjat://did:plc:dcv5ibyccb2jequlk2246gbc/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3ljhrl7ryju2q
- 📰 NEW PAPER! Really pleased to see this published in @jappliedecology.bsky.social - a summary of the main sources of bias in ecoacoustic surveys, with recommendations on how best to control for these. 🎙️🐦🐸 doi.org/10.1111/1365...
- Big shout out to all the co-authors, especially lead author David Jarrett, and @jfroidevaux.bsky.social for organising the EcoHack workshop this came out of!
- Co-authors: Tom Bradfer-Lawrence, Kieran Gibb, Pauline Guinet, @wildaudiojack.bsky.social, @becky-heath.bsky.social, Alison Johnston, José Joaquín Lahoz Monfort, @alex-rogers.bsky.social, Stephen Willis & @ollie333.bsky.social
- Reposted by Ross BarnettStumbled upon this from yonks ago. Owl identification made easy
- Reposted by Ross BarnettReviewer 2: the authors found a way to make the text longer, and the same time less precise and clear. Remarkable.
- Reposted by Ross Barnett🚨new paper explores the utility of acoustic indices for measuring biodiversity in Cyprus, China, and Australia @cmammides.bsky.social Findings: 1) No single index was effective across regions. 2) acoustic indices may not yet provide the accuracy needed to monitor bird species richness effectively.
- Reposted by Ross Barnettwhen you're pretending to mind your own business but you're actually watching all the drama unfold at the next table #macro #macrophotography #insects #bugs
- Hi bluesky! I'm Ross, I'm a PhD student working on ecoacoustic indicators of biodiversity and woodland restoration. Excited to share what I find here!
